Uploaded February 2010 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Recommended to watch in HQ or full screen. This run was part of the "Classic Games Done Quick" marathon by Speed Demos Archive that took place on January 1-3, 2010. Over $10,000 was raised for CARE, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty. Thank you to everyone who donated and watched any part of the marathon!
This SMRPG run has pretty conservative strategies to assure that I don't Game Over unintentionally but also abuses death for extra leveling with the Land's End stars. I failed to get the Attack Scarf in this run (it was late and I was tried, bleh). Overall, I'd say the run was decent considering the strategies, but I have since had SS runs that have finished the game in under 4 hours so it's not that impressive in comparison.
Also, a timing note: even though the person timing at the end of the run says it was 4:38, the timer started when the game's opening intro movie started and that takes over a minute. Therefore, I determined the correct time to be 4:37:xx.
Recommended to watch in HQ or full screen. This run was part of the "Classic Games Done Quick" marathon by Speed Demos Archive that took place on January 1-3, 2010. Over $10,000 was raised for CARE, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty. Thank you to everyone who donated and watched any part of the marathon!
This SMRPG run has pretty conservative strategies to assure that I don't Game Over unintentionally but also abuses death for extra leveling with the Land's End stars. I failed to get the Attack Scarf in this run (it was late and I was tried, bleh). Overall, I'd say the run was decent considering the strategies, but I have since had SS runs that have finished the game in under 4 hours so it's not that impressive in comparison.
Also, a timing note: even though the person timing at the end of the run says it was 4:38, the timer started when the game's opening intro movie started and that takes over a minute. Therefore, I determined the correct time to be 4:37:xx.
![Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin RTA in 15:03 [OBSOLETE]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c5q8F5y9ekM/mqdefault.jpg "Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin RTA in 15:03 [OBSOLETE]
Go watch my current record here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dU p6Vyv0
This is the new WR as of 5/21/13, overtaking the previous record by more than 90 seconds and my own personal best by nearly 2 minutes. This is mostly thanks to a few route optimizations with zips, although I think I executed the Dracula fight much better than my previous best. Astarte fight, not so much.
I was up all night and tired before attempting this, what can I say? I mostly just did the run because I was excited about the new route stuff. Im sure the time will drop a lot whenever I feel like doing a more serious round of attempts. Sorry that this is also my first full run in a while not to include commentary; I just didnt feel like talking because of how tired I was. Hope you enjoy the run anyway!")
![[OBSOLETE] Castlevania: SotN all bosses speed run in 38:18](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e1qBWsG4adg/mqdefault.jpg "[OBSOLETE] Castlevania: SotN all bosses speed run in 38:18
This is a run from early December that I had sitting around on my hard drive. I havent worked on the category lately, so I figured Id upload the best run I have so far. This category only came into existence so I could do something a little different for the game at SGDQ 2011, and I pretty much have routed the whole thing myself since then. This is a category that has been raced pretty often on SRL, so at least it has some competition going through there.
Update: this run focused on the in-game timer instead of real time and had an in-game time of 36:09. By this point, that in-game time has since been beaten in real time lol. So yea this run is pretty outdated.")
